The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-02-04
Warrington Letter.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. 1887.
Everyone seems to have been surprised
when it was announced that there was
really to be a change in the Cabinet soon.
So many unfounded reports of Cabinet
changes have found their way to Washing
ton from distance during the present Ad-
ministraton that people were not disposed
to credit any rumor on this subject. But
it is now generally believed that Secretary
Manning intends to leave the Treasury De-
partment after the adjournment Of Con-
gress. to accept the presidency of the new
National Bank of New York, at a salary of
$50, 900, more than tw ice what he gets as a
member of the Cabinet. There has been
much speculation during the past few days
as to his probable successor, and as to
whether his resignation has anything to do
with unpleasantness between him and the
President.
There has been another woman suffrage
debate i'm the Senate and another vote with
the usual result. THAT was a magnifi-
cent triumph, exclaimed Miss Susan B..
Anthony, as she gazed at the printed record
of the vote of two to one against her with
which the Senate rejected the Sixteenth
Amendment. There is nothing like her
unfailing eheerfulness in the midst of de-
feat. She cannot be dismayed by adyer-
sity, and optimistically greets every re-
verse with smile of hope. There has also
been rafting and spirited Woman s
Suffrage convention at this favorite rally
ing point of theirs since | last wrote you.
This was their nineteenth annual meeting
here. and Miss Anthony says it was one of
the most successful they have ever had.
The meetings were largely attended and
the speaking was the best the ladies could
do. They were much pleased at the good
attendance, and compared the over-fowing
audiences Of this winter with the empty
benches which they addressed in years gone
by, saying it was now almost the fashiona-
BILE thing to do to go the Woman's Rights
convention. They have planned a great
celebration for the next winter. in honor of
the fortieth anniversary of the beginning
of their movement in this country. Forty
years ago, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
at meeting in Senaca Falls, n. Y, in
troduced the first resolution fayoripg the
franchise of woman. She is billed for a
speech on the same subject at the annver-
sary celebration, although her husband is
quoted as saying that she is done with the
suffrage agitation. Mr. Stanton said that
his wife is convinced that her sex does not
want to vote They do not suffer any in
convenience from the lack Of the ballot.
added he, they do not desire it to any ap-
probable extent, and the suffrage agita-
tors are banging away at something that
offers no response whatever. lie thought
if one woman in every ten, yes, in every
hundred, would petition Congress for the
ballot they would get it at once.
As the time for the President to sign or
veto the Interstate commerce bill ap-
proaches, interest in the subject increases.
Senators and Representatives question each
other in order to learn all the talk Of the
holses and Hobbies. and reports that the
President will sign or veto it fly alternate
~ between the White House and the Capt.
toll. Assuming that the measure will get
the Executive signature, if there is any
difficulty in the selection of men to serve
their country on the railway commission
at $1,000 at year, it VIII not be found in
the sparsity of candidates, but rather in
the redundancy Of talent that will be
spread before the President There are
about sixty men who have been mentioned
for commissioners, many of whom have
been prominent and are now relegated to
private life.
The issue between the President
and the Senate in regard to the Re
cOrder of Deeds is very simple, and
cannot in its present phase, be dis
torted into question involving the
right Of celored democrat to hold Office,
as has been attempted. The people of the
District asked for one OF their own men
for the office. The President served them
with stranger, and the Senate refused to
confirm the appointment The President
re-appointed him, and the Senate again re-
jected him. That is all there is Of il. And
until the name Of a colored citizen OF the
District is sent in for the office by the
President and rejected by the Senate, it
cannot honestly be claimed that the color
line issue is a factor in the case
WESTON